SIGBA® is a MRI patient care product line and patient-centered, skill and evidence-based, approach to managing anxiety and claustrophobia during MRI exams. In a clinical study SIGBA® reduced anxiety in MRI patients by 77%.
Providing quality healthcare is a team effort. SIGBA® strengthens the healthcare team by providing patients, technologists, and imaging centers with additional skills and tools to provide a higher standard of care.
SIGBA® brings a multidimensional, approach to MRI patient care. This approach goes beyond the one-size fits all method and takes the individual’s specific needs into consideration. The SIGBA® technique combines both western and eastern medicine philosophies to provide an integrative medicine approach to produce a superior holistic and patient-centered care. 1
The SIGBA® technique combines multiple approaches to reducing anxiety during MRI exams, with a focus on breathing techniques and aromatherapy. Aromatherapy defined as the therapeutic use of essential oils.
Providing quality healthcare is a team effort. SIGBA® strengthens the healthcare team by providing patients, technologists, and imaging centers with additional skills and tools to provide a higher standard of care.
Our Philosophies
More alternative interventions to sedation is needed. Research shows more interventions aimed at reducing MRI anxiety are necessary.8,9 SIGBA® fills this need.
Radiologic Technologists has come a long way. Over the years the profession has gone from being called technicians to technologists. Professional organizations formed to elevate the profession’s standing and respect in medicine.
The SIGBA® method presents another opportunity to further technologist’s knowledge and professional standing in healthcare.
How our Services Help Imaging Centers and Patients? Konxja® services offer simple personalized solutions for patients and your imaging center’s unique needs. Our methodology gives patients the reassurance and peace of mind to get through MRI exams and on the path to better health. We give you a game plan and knowledgeable radiologic technologists for dealing with anxiety resulting in fewer prematurely cancelled exams. Increase Efficiency MRI technologists see disruptions in their workflow from anxious and claustrophobic patients on a daily basis. SIGBA,® our trademarked technique can help decrease these disruptions by giving technologists evidence and skill based tools to keep patients calm. With fewer disruptions, technologists stay on schedule and patients receive superior care and support.”
Improve MRI patient care! We know that providing great patient-centered care and customer service is your goal. Using our methodology will increase patient satisfaction, and quality of care without excessive budget constraints. Konxja® consulting will help you identify areas of improvement and provide staff training focused on reducing patient anxiety with less or no sedation, while decreasing motion artifacts. Most importantly we help you improve your patient satisfaction to establish loyal customers.
Increase Exam Completion Rates
We can help your business save money by reducing the number of prematurely cancelled and no show MRI exams. How you ask? By teaching your staff techniques designed to reduce patient’s anxiety. SIGBA® Techniques for Technologists is a clinically tested and highly effective technique to reduce anxiety in MRI patients by 77%. Reduce MRI anxiety may reduce cancelled MRI exams resulting in operational cost savings. SIGBA® is relatively inexpensive to implement, low risk, and easy to learn for technologist and patients. Because SIGBA® is skill based, once your technologists learn the technique they can be uses again and again without additional costs to you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
SIGBA® will not affect workflow. It is easy to learn for technologists and patients taking only minutes to perform. These few extra minutes creates a more relaxed patient reducing motion, disruptions and repeat exams due to cancellations. With the radiology movement from volume to value, decreasing repeat exams while increasing patient satisfaction is imperative. In short, a few additional minutes of care will save you time and money in the long run. Patients who purchase a MRI Relaxation Kit prepares prior to their exam.
Unlike other interventions for MRI anxiety, SIGBA® is simple, skill based, low tech, cost efficient, low risk and centered on the patient’s unique needs. SIGBA® addresses patient’s physical and psychological needs. Other MRI interventions can be complicated, time consuming, or requiring high priced equipment. SIGBA® has been clinically shown to reduce MRI anxiety by 77% in a safe cost effective way giving technologists and patients the tools needed to successfully complete their MRI exam. More importantly, unlike other interventions these techniques and products can be incorporated into any outpatient MRI practice in the world.
Although SIGBA® was created to help claustrophobic MRI patients with anxiety; it may have other medical applications. Examples include preparation for invasive or noninvasive medical procedures such as mammography, preoperative suites. In a nutshell, SIGBA® may help reduce situational anxiety and promote relaxation.
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